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GARY KOMARIN
BORN
1951 New York, NY
EDUCATION
1975 – 1977
Boston
University, MFA in Painting
1975
Brooklyn
Museum School
New York Studio School
1973
Albany
State University, BA in Art and English Literature
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
212
Gallery, Aspen. March
Neilson Gallery, Grazalema, Spain. June
New Art Centre, Berlin, Germany. September
Elins Eagles Smith Gallery,San Francisco. October
Gremillion and Co, Houston. October
Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2009
Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Gallerie
Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
Angus
Broadbent Gallery, London, England
2008
Blue Scrubbed White,
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Kiyoharu
Museum, Kiyoharu, Japan
The
Fine Art Society, London, England
2007
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Spanierman
Modern, New York, NY
The
Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX
Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Costello-Childs Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2006
Incident
at Echo Lake, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des
Moines, IA
Galerie ProArta, Zürich,
Switzerland
SG Modern and Contemporary Fine Arts, New York, NY
The Bourdon Gauge, The Fine Art Society, London,
England
2005
Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
Donna Tribby Fine Arts, Palm Beach, FL
2004
Karolyn
Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland
Broadbent Gallery, London, England
2003
McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
Kraft Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Kunstart Zürich,
Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie ProArta, Zug, Switzerland
2002
Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Peyton/Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY
Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Ballard Featherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
MOFA, New Orleans, LA
Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2000
Peyton/Wright, New York, NY
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta GA
Gremillion & Company Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1999
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1998
MOFA, New Orleans, LA
CS
Schulte Gallery, NJ
1997
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996
Mark Miller, East Hampton, NY
1996
Drew University, Madison, NJ
1995
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Grace Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1990
Scott Hanson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
Brian
Reddy, Little Silver, NJ
Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Princeton University Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1987
Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1985
Maxwell
Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Meredith & Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1984
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Meadows Museum of the Arts, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, TX
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Meredith & Long Gallery, Houston, TX
1982
University of Texas - Irving, Irving, TX
Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX
1981
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery, New
York
William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
1979
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Katonah
Museum, Katonah, NY
2006
“The
Hungry Eye”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
“Works on Paper”,
Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
“Long Island
Abstraction”, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
“Discardingly Yours”, Dean Jensen Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI
2005
The Fine Art Society, London, UK
Kunstart Amsterdam with Nico DeLaive Gallery
Goss Gallery Inaugural Show, Dallas, TX
London Art Fair with Broadbent Gallery
San Francisco Art Fair with Elins Eagles-Smith
Gallery
“Transversal”, curated group show, Robuschon
Gallery, Denver, CO
2004
Ronald Feldman Gallery,
Philips de Pury & Co., curated auction, New
York, NY
“Slow Art”, Broadbent Gallery, London, England
“32 x 32”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
London Art Fair with Broadbent Gallery
Works on Paper with Burton Marinkovich, The
Armory, New York, NY
Bologna Art Fair with Broadbent Gallery
2003 “The Americans”,
Warhol, Francis, Lichtenstein, Christo, Komarin at
Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland
Basel Art Fair with Hamiltons Gallery
2003
Milan Art Fair with Galerie Arte at Arta
“Art of this Century” with Mira Godard Gallery,
The Armory, New York, NY
Broadbent Gallery,
London, England
Richmond House Project with Hamiltons Gallery,
London, England
“New Abstraction”, Lizan Tops Gallery, East
Hampton, NY
Kraft/Lieberman Gallery Inaugural Exhibition,
Chicago, IL
2003
Luke Honey, London, England
2002
“13th
Anniversary Show”, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Kunstart
Fair with Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland
Robischon Gallery,
Denver, CO
Galerie ProArta, Zürich, Switzerland
“100 NJ Artists Make Prints”,
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ and traveled
to The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ and The Noyes
Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
“The Maker’s Mark”, The University of New Orleans,
New Orleans, LA
Works on Paper with Burton
Marinkovich Fine Art, The Armory, New York, NY
2001
Juried
Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New
York City, NY
“Almost Giddy”, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
“New Directions”, Masur Museum of Art, New
Orleans, LA
“Report & Find”, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
“Paintings on Paper”, Tim Hill Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
“New York/New Works on Paper”,
Lizan Tops Gallery, East
Hampton, NY
Chicago Art Fair with Tandem Press
San Francisco Art Fair with Tandem Press
Works on Paper with Burton Marinkovich Fine Art,
The Armory, New York, NY
2000
The Print Fair at the Armory with Tandem Press,
New York, NY
“Homage to the Twentieth Century”, New Orleans
Center for Contemporary Arts, New Orleans, LA
Chicago Art Fair with Thomas McCormick
St. Louis Print Fair with Burton Marinkovich Fine
Art
The Baltimore Print Fair with
Gary Godwin Gallery
Works on Paper with Burton Marinkovich Fine Art,
The Armory, New York, NY
1999
“The American Summer”, Tim Hill Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
San Francisco Art Fair with Fay Gold Gallery,
Greg Kucera Gallery, and
Brian Gross Fine Art
Works on Paper with Jeffrey
Hoffeld and Co., The Armory, New York, NY
“Nature Naturing”, Percival Gallery, Des Moines,
IA
“About Paint”, Linda Cathcart Fine Arts, San
Francisco, CA
“Komarin Monotypes”, Aurobora Press, San
Francisco, CA
“Grant Winners/ A Survey of New Work”, Rutgers
Univeristy, Rutgers, NJ
1998
“On
Paper – Associated American Artists”, New York, NY
“Mac Attack”, John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY
“Third Person”, Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
“Works on Paper”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Works on Paper”, Adam Baumgold Gallery at the
Armory, New York
The
Chicago Art Fair with Garner Tullis
Susan
Conway Gallery, Washington, DC
“The
French Wig”, Jan Anderson, New York, NY
1997
“New Jersey Biennial”, Newark Museum, curated by
Joseph Jacobs (catalogue), Newark, NJ
“National Invitational Works on Paper”,
University of Hawaii
(catalogue), Manoa, HI
“East Hampton Drawing Invitational”, curated by
Arlene Buljese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“The Rain Forest Foundation Art Benefit”, John
McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY
1997
“Gramercy
Park”, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA
“Pinned to the Wall”, Parchman Stremmel Gallery,
Austin, TX
“Perspectives of Nature”, Jan Abrams Fine Arts,
New York, NY
“Young Painters”, Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis,
MN
“The New Americans”, The John McEnroe Gallery in
Kobe, Japan
1996 “Guston, Basquiat,
Komarin, Traylor”, John McEnroe Gallery, curated
by Jordan Tinker (catalogue), New York, NY
“A Changing Cast/Changing Color”, Ruth O’Hara,
curated by Michael Walls, New York, NY
“Fifty/50”, Terrain, curated by Peter Wright, San
Francisco, CA
“Balancing Act”, Room, curated by Richard Dickens,
New York, NY
The Chicago Art Fair with Arthur Roger Gallery
Works on Paper with Jan Andersen Fine Art, The
Armory, New York, NY
1995
“A Part; A Whole” (catalogue), Room, New York, NY
“New York, New Work”, curated by Gilles Presti,
Gagosian Gallery, Miliana Gallery, Marseilles,
France
“New Works on Paper”, An Installation at Margaret
Lipworth, New York, NY
“On a Smaller Scale”, Grace Hokin, Palm Beach, FL
1994 “Narrative
Abstractions”, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach,
FL
“New Directions”, William Campbell Gallery, Fort
Worth, TX
“American Painting”, Meredith Long and Co.,
Houston, TX
1993 “Art and Object”,
Frankel Nathanson Gallery,
curated by Marjorie Nathanson, Maplewood, NJ
“Post Modern Abstractions”, Grace Hokin Gallery,
Palm Beach, FL
1992
“A
Drawing Survey”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New
York, NY
1991
“Rethinking
the Grid”, Brian Reddy Gallery, NJ
1990
“Past,
Present, Future”, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Miami,
FL
“The Figure in the Twentieth Century”, Meredith
Long Gallery, Houston, TX
“The Morris Museum/Biennial Survey Show”, curated
by R. Ferguson, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
“Wet Paint”, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Recent
Drawings Here and Abroad, Herbert Palmer Gallery,
Los
Angeles, CA
The Morris Museum Biennial, Morristown, NJ
Chicago Art Fair with Maxwell
Davidson Gallery
“Texas Artists”, The University of Texas Art
Gallery, Dallas, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
The Long View Museum, Longview, TX
“Fun and Brains”, The Kraine Club, New York, NY
1987
“Texas Artists”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San
Antonio, TX
“Fun and Brains”, Kraine Club Gallery, New York,
NY
1986
“Indigestion”, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
“Words”,
Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL
“The
Society of Four Arts”, Palm Beach, FL
“The Dog Days of August”, curated by Fred Boyle,
Littlejohn/Smith Gallery, New York, NY
“New
Jersey Biennial Show”, curated by Grace Glueck,
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
Chicago
Art Fair with Maxwell Davidson Gallery
“Words”,
Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL
1985
“Ten Painters in Texas: Survey of Contemporary
Painting”, University of Texas - El Paso, El Paso,
TX
The Meadows Museum Of Arts, Dallas, TX
1983
“Recent Trends in American Art”, The Tampa Art
Museum, Tampa, FL
“Modern Masters/Contemporary Works on Paper”,
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1983 “The Painted Object
Painted”, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Art and the Law”,
curated by Harry Parker, Dallas Museum of Fine
Arts, Dallas, TX
“National Drawing Competition”, Yale University,
New Haven, CT
1982
Wunsch Art Center, juried by Patterson Sims
“Arkansas Art Center/26th Annual Painting
Competition”, Little Rock, AR
“About Face”, Laura Carpenter Gallery, Dallas, TX
1981
Museum of Fine Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR
1979
“In Context”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York,
NY
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Art Gallery,
Geneva, NY
AWARDS
2002 The Benjamin Altman
Prize in Painting
2000 Edward Albee Foundation
Fellowship
1999 The Joan Mitchell Prize
in Painting
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant
1998 The New York Foundation
for the Arts Grant
1996 Continental Airlines VIP
Gallery Show
Philip Hulitar Award in Painting
1995 New Foundation of the
Arts Award
1988 Arkansas Museum of
Contemporary Art
1984 Jane Livingston
(Corcoran Gallery/Curator contemporary painting
and sculpture), selected award for the Assistance
League of Houston
1981 Hilton Kramer, Juror,
selection of Purchase Prize, The Art Center 25th
Annual Painting & Sculpture Competition
1975 Graduate Teaching
Fellowship in Painting, Boston University,
assistant to Philip Guston
COLLABORATIONS
2004 Flatbed Press, Austin,
TX
2002 Aurobora Press, San
Francisco, CA
2001 Segura Press, Tempe, AZ
2000 Garner Tullis, New York,
NY
2000 Tandem Press, University
of Wisconsin
1999 Aurobora Press, San
Francisco, CA
1998 Rutgers University
Press, School of Innovative Printmaking, NJ
1997 Garner Tullis, New York,
NY
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
King, Sarah S., Art in America, July 2003
Brandenberg, Andreas, Zuger Presse, ‘Complex
Paintings from Overseas’,
Galerie ProArta, 2002
Taylor, Art, ‘Komarin at Lizan Tops’, East Hampton
Arts, New York, 2002
Schwabsky, Barry, ‘Paintings do the Talking
Without Too Many Specifics’, The
New York Times, 2000
Grayson, Clive, ‘Gary Komarin at Susan Conway’,
The Washington Post, 1995
Waddington, Chris, ‘Subjects Simple but Art
Deceptively Sophisticated’, The
New Orleans Lagniappe, 1996
Langdon, Davis, ‘French Wig in East Hampton,’
Hamptons Gazette 1998
ARTICLES & REVIEWS (continued)
Foxworth, Janet, ‘Gary Komarin’s The Naming of
John Dreamer’, The Atlanta
Journal, 1997
Reed, Vincent, ‘Komarin Explores the Painterly’ at
Klarfeld Perry, Arts Magazine
1993.
Lloyd, Amy, ‘Gary Komarin Shows New Expressive
Work at Sandler/Hudson,
Art in America, 1994.
Loughery, John, ‘Komarin, The Master of the
Elemental Image’ at Maxwell
Davidson, Arts Magazine, 1991.
Watson, Edward, ‘Surrealist Loads Canvas’, The New
Jersey Star Ledger 1989.
Russell, John, ‘The Dog Days of August’, The New
York Times 1987.
Zimmer, William, ‘Something-But What?, The New
York Times, 1985.
Zimmer, William, ‘A Rich Array…From Newburgh to
Newark’. The New York
Times, 1985.
Everingham, Carol, ‘A Comical View of the American
Dream’, The Houston Post,
1982.
Perry, Paloma, ‘Stories in Paint’, The Atlanta
Journal, 1981.
Kutner, Janet, ‘Komarin Shows Strong Work’, The
Dallas Morning News, 1981.
Baker, Ralph, ‘Komarin Paintings and Works on
Paper’, The Museum of Art at
The University of Oregon, Eugene, catalog essay
1980.
Parks, Addison, ‘Gary Komarin New Work at Maxwell
Davidson’, Arts Magazine
1979.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Arkansas Museum of Contemporary Art, Little Rock,
AK
AT&T Corporation, New York, NY
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
Blount Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Boston University Art Museum, Boston, MA
Continental Airlines, Houston, TX
David Alan Greer, Los Angeles, CA
Faegre & Benson, Des Moines, IA
Galerie ProArta, Zurich, Switzerland
Garner Tullis, New York, NY and Tuscany, Italy
Gisep Biert, President of Morgan Stanley, Zurich,
Swizterland
Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Herbert Palmer, Los Angeles, CA
Houston Memorial Hospital & Medical Center,
Houston, TX
Hyatt Corporation, Houston, TX
Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York, NY
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
John McEnroe, New York, NY
John Rubenstein & Associates, Bernardsville, NJ
Kimball Museum, Chairperson, Private Collection,
Fort Worth, TX
Luke Honey, de Pury and Luxembourg, London,
Engaland
Maison Klein, Curator, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Marian Boesky, New York, NY
Maxwell Davidson, New York, NY
McDonald’s Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Michael Hoban, London, England
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Nordstrom Corporation, Seattle, WA
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Boston,
MA
Robert Lamb, Los Angeles, CA
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ruth O’Hara, New York, NY
Sandler/Hudson, Atlanta, GA
Steven’s Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Tanaka Shiroga, Tokyo, Japan
Tim Jefferies, London, England
Toby Clarke, director of The Fine Art Society,
London, England
Touche/Ross, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Transco, Inc., New York, NY
United Bank of Houston, Houston, TX
Wendy Olsoff, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Zimmerli Museum, New Hyde Park, NJ |
